SAD leader caught selling Punsup rice
Tuesday, 13/06/2017
http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/punjab/sad-leader-caught-selling-punsup-rice/421467.html
Moga : The police have booked local Akali leader Ranjit Singh and his father Mukhtiar Singh for allegedly trying to sell two trucks of rice belonging to Punsup, a state-owned procurement agency, in the open market.
The Akali leader and his family, however, have denied the allegations, claiming that they have become victims of political vendetta.
Punsup Inspector Gaurav Goel had given a written complaint to the local police, alleging that the accused, who own a rice mill, made fake gate passes to transport two trucks of rice out of the rice mill. The trucks were seized yesterday.
Ranjit and Mukhtiar were booked yesterday under Sections 406, 465, 467, 468 and 471 of the IPC at the Nihalsinghwala police station.
Ranjit Singh and his wife Jatinder Kaur, the sarpanch of Bhagike village, said they had already filed a case against the Punsup authorities in a local court in connection with the disputed rice.
“We custom-milled all stocks of paddy belonging to the Punsup and handed it over to the Food Corporation of India (FCI). No stock allotted by Punsup was left in our rice mill for 2016-17,” Jatinder Kaur claimed.
The sarpanch said her husband purchased extra paddy from the market for milling and that was his commodity. “The trucks of rice recovered by the police are from the personal stock purchased by my husband,” she claimed.
